A Week in the War on Women: Monday 21st March - Sunday 27th March
Monday 21st March - Women Aren’t Allowed Anything Of Our Own
882 6PR: The founder of a social networking app for women is facing federal court after trying to ensure that the site is female-only.
Sall Grover founded the women-only site, Giggle, in 2020. Thus far over 15,000 women in 88 different countries have signed up. To ensure that it remains female-only, the app uses facial recognition software as well as screening by human eye, to prevent males from joining.
Both Sall Grover and the app have been reported to the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) by a trans-identified male, Roxanne Tickle, and are accused of ‘gender identity discrimination’.
Tickle, who also uses the name ‘Roxy’, writes a blog called The Roxy Epoch and operates a Twitter account of the same name. He makes clear that, despite knowing the site is only for females, he signed up and tried to evade the restrictions.
Unsurprisingly, Tickle has form re the trampling of women’s boundaries. In October 2020 he was in the news for joining a women’s hockey team and he has actively campaigned for trans-identified males to be included in women’s sports.
The AHRC instructed Sall Grover that she must allow Tickle and all other males who ‘identify as female’ to join Giggle. She must also undergo what it worryingly describes as ‘education’ on gender identity or her case could be taken to the federal court.
In a post on social media, Tasmanian senator, Claire Chandler, commented, “Another chilling example of what women face in Australia if they stand up for single-sex spaces, sports or services for women and girls.”
Sall Grover told radio station 882 6PR, “The anger that a lot of these males have of not being allowed to be on a female app proves the need for it and why we don’t want them there.”
Tuesday 22nd March - “LA County Killed My Daughter”
WASHINGTON EXAMINER: A mother in the USA has described how her vulnerable daughter fell prey to gender identity ideology and ultimately took her own life.
Yaeli Martinez was just nineteen years old when she stepped in front of a train in September 2019. Her mother, Abigail Martinez, believes that the Arcadia School District, which pushed her daughter into transition, and LA County, which removed her from her family, are culpable in her suicide.
Yaeli suffered with mental health issues from childhood, had attention deficit disorder and was bullied in middle school. By the time she was thirteen, she showed signs of depression and had made two attempts on her own life. Aged around fifteen, Yaeli began questioning her sexuality and told her sister that she ‘liked girls’.
It was in high school, says Martinez, that things changed dramatically and Yaeli went from exploring her sexuality to questioning her ‘gender’. She believes that her daughter’s school pushed her into believing she was transgender. She told The Daily Mail that school staff encouraged Yaeli to secretly join an LGBTQ group and that she was persuaded to take testosterone and to pursue surgery.
Martinez also believes that an older trans student and their family influenced Yaeli’s gender identity, persuading her that the state would fund her treatment if she was in foster care. In July 2016 they convinced her to run away from home and to tell the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) that her mother had slapped her.
“I never was abusive to my children. I love my children”, Martinez said. “I never slapped her. But she was coached by this family what to tell the authorities.” Although Martinez continued to work as a nanny and retain custody of her three other children, an LA family court judge ruled that Yaeli must be placed in foster care.
In 2019 Yaeli, still struggling with her mental health, was hospitalized following an attempted overdose. Soon after, Abigail Martinez received a phone call from the Pomona police to tell her that her daughter had taken her own life.
Roger Severin, a former civil rights director for the federal Department of Health and Human Services, feels that the Arcadia school district and LA County put politics before Yaeli’s wellbeing. “Instead of working through the underlying depression, they put Abi's daughter on a one-way track straight to transition and chemical interventions... I think the school district and especially DCFS are ultimately responsible for her death.”
Abigail Martinez said, “My question to all of them is where is my daughter now? Why did they play with her life?”
Wednesday 23rd March - These Are Not Our Crimes
PERTH NOW: The criminal dubbed ‘the most hated man in Australia’ has appeared in court this week claiming to be transgender.
In 2020 Ricard Pusey was pulled over by police officers after he was caught speeding in his Porsche on Melbourne’s Eastern Freeway. As the four officers questioned him at the roadside, an out of control truck ploughed into them. Pusey, having escaped injury himself, filmed the officers as they lay dying on the tarmac. He served a 10 month prison sentence for outraging public decency.
After his release last year, Pusey posted over 40 images and videos from the horrific accident to his social media accounts, often adding disturbing captions. At the time he was on bail for four counts of assaulting an emergency worker on duty and two counts of stalking.
Last month Pusey was arrested and charged with two counts of using a telecommunications device to menace and two counts of committing an indictable offence while on bail.
When Pusey appeared in court in February, he insisted on being addressed with they/them pronouns. Appearing in court this week, he interrupted the hearing to tell the magistrate that he now ‘identifies as a woman’.
Also Today - First Do No Harm
4W: Women who were NHS patients believe they’ve been lied to about the presence of trans-identified males in supposedly female-only spaces.
One4 woman, referred to in the article as Gilly, strongly believes that, earlier this year, she was accommodated on an NHS ward with a trans-identified male referred to as ‘Brenda’. Not only did his physique and aggressive behaviour make her suspicious, one of his visitors called him by a man’s name. As Gilly is a survivor of rape and domestic violence and suffers with PTSD, this situation was extremely distressing for her, especially as she had to share a bathroom with ‘Brenda’.
One night at around 10pm, Gilly tried to voice her discomfort to staff but was advised to speak to the ward nurse in the morning. When she did so, her concerns were dismissed and she was told that ‘Brenda’ is a woman. She was discharged from hospital within the hour and without having the tests she had been waiting for.
Gilly closed her Twitter account after being hounded by trans activists for tweeting about her concerns. A month later, she learned about the NHS policy ‘Annex B’ and the other women who believe they’ve been lied to about the presence of males on their hospital wards.
“I’d been made aware of the NHS Pledge and a clause known as Annex B. I’d heard how they were covering up and protecting trans rights over women’s and the woman’s rape was the final straw which led me to open up again.”
You will probably recall that the shocking case to which she Gilly referred was revealed by Baroness Emma Nicholson in the House of Lords a few weeks ago.
Another woman, referred to in the article as Lily, was using a women’s toilet in an NHS hospital. She was washing her hands at the sink when a man appeared, leaving one of the cubicles. Lily hurried away, feeling unsafe and uncomfortable.
Lily spoke to a security guard who told her that defining what ‘woman’ means is ‘problematic’. She wrote to the hospital and was contacted by a member of staff who insisted that CCTV footage had been inspected and showed the person in question was definitely a woman. Lily was very surprised but assumed that a member of NHS staff would never lie to a patient.
“I read of the woman who had been raped in an unnamed hospital but had been told by NHS staff that it was not possible… It was a lie. That poor woman was lied to. Now I’m wondering whether I’ve been lied to as well.”
In 2016 Philippa Molloy was locked into a women's psychiatric ward with a trans-identified male patient. She was suffering from a bipolar disorder which caused a devastating fear of men. Being forced to share accommodation with someone she described as ‘extremely male bodied’ left her genuinely terrified. Furthermore, she felt that other women on the ward were also at risk, one being a victim of male violence and another experiencing hypersexuality as a result of her illness.
Philippa tried to voice her concerns to the hospital staff but they were was dismissed. She later discovered that she had been described as transphobic on her medical records.
Thursday 24th March - Witch Burning In Manchester
Trans activists descended on a feminist meeting in Manchester, trying to intimidate the attendees and silence the speakers.
Feminist organisation, Woman's Place UK, organised a meeting at the Mechanic’s Institute in Manchester. It was called “The importance and future of single-sex provision in policy and law”. The aim was to discuss the potential impact of proposed legislation on women’s single-sex spaces, services, quotas and competition.
Obviously, women meeting to discuss their rights could not be tolerated by the city’s gender zealots and a large gang of protestors gathered. Chanting “Terf scum off our streets” they marched from St Peter’s Square to the venue.
Those in attendance reported there were around 200 protestors and that many of them were young males.
They gathered in the street chanting “Terfs get off our fucking turf”.
They surrounded the venue and, using a tannoy, chanted slogans such as “Fuck terfs!” and “Woman’s place is a place of hate".
Someone in the crowd recognised Alex Bramham who was merely there as a quiet onlooker. They booed, intimidated and chanted ‘Tory wanker’ at a gay man who had not even spoken to them.
They also chanted a few choruses of “All cops are bastards” at the police officers on duty at the protest.
But then they resumed harassing feminists, screaming “Terfs off our turf”.
Many of those attending the meeting reported that it was difficult to hear the speakers in the venue over the noise of the baying mob outside.
Amongst those speaking was Maggy Moyo, a lesbian from Zimbabwe who sought asylum in the UK and is now a human rights campaigner. She talked about the FGM and forced abortion suffered by women in Zimbabwe. Another speaker was Judith Green, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who works in women’s health. Both described the vital importance of female-only spaces to traumatised women.
These are the women at whom the protestors screamed ‘fascist’ and tried to intimidate into silence; an African lesbian persecuted for her sex and a survivor of male sexual violence.
According to The Daily Mail, after the meeting police had to move the crowd apart so that women could leave the venue in safety. Some attendees reported that a police escort was required as they left.
But remember, “Just be kind.”
Friday 25th March - The Morning After The Night Before
The Manchester Evening News reported on the demonstration at the WPUK meeting. But the article omits much important information and spins the event as a ‘protest against transphobia’ rather than an attempt to shut down a feminist meeting.
Under the headline “'Protect trans lives': Hundreds march through city centre in protest against transphobia”, most of the article simply quotes the trans rights activists in attendance. Of course, those quoted mispresent the aims of WPUK and the theme of the meeting and engage in the usual hyperbole. One of the protestors claimed that, “There are people who are campaigning against the legal protections for trans people which will make it so that trans people can’t be legally hate crimed against”.
Despite social media being inundated with footage of the protestors engaging in aggressive and intimidatory behaviour, the article fails to mention their conduct. It also omits to mention that the speakers, some survivors of male violence, were frequently drowned out by the shouting, booing and misogynistic insults being directed at them through a sound system. Nor does it report that women required a police escort from the venue for their own safety.
The author of the piece is Adam Maidment.
He was at the event but seemed only to spend time with the protestors.
He didn’t report on the meeting itself, having declined the offer of a free press ticket.
This is how Adam has described lesbians defending their right to be same-sex attracted.
Saturday 26th March - Shhhhhhh!
CONSERVATIVES FOR WOMEN: The British Library paid Stonewall £1500 for ‘how to tackle a terf’ training.
Last month, The Telegraph reported on the British Library introducing pronoun badges for its staff. This story prompted journalist, Caroline ffiske, to make a freedom of information request to find out what sort of influence Stonewall has over the BL.
She discovered that, unsurprisingly, the BL is a member of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions scheme at a cost of £2,500 pa. But she also found that it had paid Stonewall to deliver online training sessions on how security and front-of-house staff should deal with women defending or discussing their sex-based rights.
Among the training scenarios that Stonewall proposed for the BL were:
“You are patrolling the exhibition and a visitor comes to you letting you know that someone is wearing a t-shirt that is offensive to trans people while walking around the exhibition. What action would you take?”
“You are working on the floor of the exhibition. A group of people with tickets enter the exhibition and after ten minutes they unfurl a banner that reads ‘sex not gender’ and then sit down around it. What do you do?”
This training, delivered by Zoom, cost 1500 per session +VAT.
Caroline ffiske writes, “There are many men and women who know that sex is real and that it matters. They are concerned about an ideology, promoted by Stonewall, which seeks to preference self-declared 'inner gender' over sex, in the making of law and the ordering of public life. These people are allowed to make their views known using the usual forms of protest accepted in British public life. Yet the British Library seems to be singling them out for silencing. What is the basis for this? Misogyny? Or institutional cowardice and gullible conformity from another of our supposedly great institutions, too afraid to challenge Stonewall?”
Sunday 27th March - On Your Bike
THE DAILY MAIL: The UK’s top female cyclists are likely to lose medals, team places and opportunities to a trans-identified male.
Emily (formerly Zach) Bridges has been cycling competitively since his early teens. Aged sixteen he won a silver medal at junior nationals which resulted in him being offered a place at the GB Junior Academy where he trained with the best young male cyclists from across the country. He later moved on to the residential GB Senior Academy in Manchester, the programme for Olympic hopefuls.
In 2018 Bridges set the 25 mile Junior Men's national record for that year with a time of 47:27, two minutes faster than the current national record for adult women.
In 2020, aged nineteen, Bridges began ‘identifying as a woman’ and he started hormone treatment last year. Nevertheless, he has continued to compete on male teams in men’s events.
Only last month he competed on the men’s team at the University Championships. He won an individual gold medal in the men's points race and a bronze medal in the team pursuit event. (He and his teammates were congratulated by the University of Nottingham in a tweet which has since been deleted.)
Bridges, who is six feet two inches tall, has just announced that he intends to compete in female events. In a recent interview with Cycling Weekly, he said that his goal is to compete at the top level domestically.
His testosterone levels now meet the criteria set out by British Cycling, the sport's governing body, allowing him to compete against women. However, all the scientific evidence demonstrates that, even after reducing testosterone levels, males retain numerous physical and physiological advantages over women and any loss of muscle mass and strength is negligible.
When asked about these advantages in Cycling Weekly, Bridges shrugged off the question with an evasive non-sequitur comment about height.
He probably knows that female cyclists protesting his inclusion in the women’s sport will likely be ignored or even intimidated into silence.
At the beginning of February we reported that British Cycling had updated its Transgender and Non-Binary Participation Policy. Its lengthy list of ‘responsibilities’ means members have no choice but to adhere to gender identity ideology and must ‘accept all participants in the gender they present’.
Furthermore, members are instructed to grass on those who refuse to accept these Orwellian rules. “Report any incidents of inappropriate or offensive behaviour and language.” Transgressors “Shall be considered under the British Cycling Disciplinary Regulations” meaning they could face an investigation, fines, suspension or even expulsion. So the women who don’t want to race against or share facilities with trans-identified males risk being reported and thrown out if they speak up.
British Cycling are pretending they don’t understand the difference between the sexes. But a few years ago, when forced to apologise for sexist bullying, they certainly knew what a woman was.
See you next week.
More misinformation. Giggle DOESN'T have a transgender ban as claimed in the caption. It has a MALE ban. They are two different things. Transmen aren't banned. Yet again the media lies. Yet again women who identify as men are ignored to benefit trans identifying males.
I feel especially sorry for the UK female cyclists.